Word: idler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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People instinctively turn to Dr. Chance as a kind of confessor, but when he takes on the troubles of a U.S. Catholic named Macgrady, he finds a case that would stretch the capacities of the wisest priest. Macgrady is a rich idler who has lived beyond his means. He has borrowed a fortune from the local crime syndicate, doctors in Madrid have told him that he has cancer, and he is nagged by the conviction that as a bad Catholic he has small chance of dying in a state of grace. Dr. Chance seems to him the man who might...
...bottom of the hill and provided the motive power. The rope ran around the car's tireless rear wheel, up the hill, around the fourth wheel which was mounted on the tripod, and back. By the following January, the tow had been refined by the addition of idler wheels and the substitution of a Ford tractor as power...
...Idler's best efforts were its two 1951-52 productions: Ibsen's A Doll's House and Clare Booth Luce's The Women. But Idler was destined to inhabit the level of mediocrity: it rarely produced a poor show, but it never produced a really excellent...
...Finally Idler died in the spring of 1953. Henceforth Radcliffe's main theatrical energies were channeled through Harvard organizations...
...disbanding of Idler and the graduation of the HTG core in the spring of 1953 left the debt-ridden HDC all alone. Since the HDC had been able to squeak out only one major show in each of the previous two years, it looked as though 1953-54 might sink to a theatrical low. But a number of coincidences brought about quite a different result...